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A review by mlytylr
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner
5.0
there's something special about the mindset you're in, reading a novel about post-soviet russia, where you see a sentence like this:
"With each move of a chess piece, Tanya could hear their excited misery and terrible human longings amplified by the strange acoustics of the cafe: too old for the army, too young to retire, too beat up by life to find a job and keep it, too broke for a bottle."
-- and think, yes, that is a totally normal way to describe an outdoor chess tournament.
"With each move of a chess piece, Tanya could hear their excited misery and terrible human longings amplified by the strange acoustics of the cafe: too old for the army, too young to retire, too beat up by life to find a job and keep it, too broke for a bottle."
-- and think, yes, that is a totally normal way to describe an outdoor chess tournament.